Completeness. It must be playable start-to-finish (or for a full round if MP) pretty much as intended by the scope of the project. It does not need to be in its final form or totally polished, but it shouldn't be that a player gets from level 2 to 3 and the game goes from 1 style to being full of placeholders and TODOs appearing in the dialogs.

Well, I still think the "significant amount of gameplay value" definition needs to be extended anyway. For example, I really think Pingus belongs to that list as it is really a well-made game with quite gameplay value and it seems we all agree about it because it is in that list, but under the current definition, it doesn't fit: It does not have a storyline, multiplayer or exploration.

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What's with Frogatto, http://frogatto.com/ ?It's a game with an open source engine, yet with non-free media; and it is complete (you can play it from start to an end) even though it's still under heavy development.

Well, the storyline isn't finished yet AFAIK, but it is complete. As weird as it may sound, but you are able to play from start to end, and now they want to flesh out the middle part.I was only asking because of the non-free media, but if that's okay I'll add it gladly to the Wiki.

I imagine a lot of open source projects fall into a category of being complete in the sense of "fully playable", but incomplete in the sense of "still under development" - e.g., FreeCiv is surely a complete game, but still being updated and worked on, I believe. I presume the intention is that such games are allowed on the list (else many open source games would never qualify! And even completed commercial games still get patch updates...).

Is it fine to go ahead and add details of our own games here, or is it better to post them here/on talk for someone else to add? (For myself, I'm thinking of Daleks 3D for the casual list, and Conquests for the main list since it's now (I hope!) in a fully playable state.)

Arbitrary version numbers don't really mean much. You could make something completly amazing but not think it worthy of 1.0 status because of a rare bug that wouldn't even be an issue for 99.9% of users or a minor option that isn't exposed for tweaking in the menus.

The lists' inclusion criteria do not stipulate for v1.0. The rules for inclusion are fairly clear (click on the 'See rules for this list' link in the opening paragraph on each page).

Complete games inclusion criteria {l Wrote}:Complete games must not have features missing, which are required to complete a game session, campaigns or multi-player matches. Single-player mode must have a start, an end and provide a reasonable amount of levels/gameplay. Multi-player mode must provide a reasonable amount of levels and game modes.

Casual games inclusion criteria {l Wrote}:Complete casual games must not have features missing, which are required to complete a game session. Single-player mode must have a start, an end and provide a reasonable amount of levels/gameplay. Multi-player mode must provide a reasonable amount of gameplay.